I love the way these videos are formulated! It shows the romaji, kanji, and english translation all together, which makes learning so much easier. Plus the way that Risa slows down her pronunciation of the Japanese word is super helpful. Thank you for these videos! They're great! :D
+storres0413 If you're serious about learning Japanese you really shouldn't be using romaji in the first place. Hiragana and katakana are really easy to learn and would take you at most a day or two to memorize. Romaji as opposed to furigana or straight up kanji inhibits that progress and you end up using it as a crotch which will only hurt you in the long run.
m8onethousand Yeah, I use the romaji so I can clearly read if I am pronouncing the words correctly as I hear them. Once I am familiar with the words, then I move to the kana, and then end with learning the kanji. Learning a language requires baby steps, so having them all there really helps me out.
DownFromTheSky89 That's the thing, hiragana and katakana only takes up at most 1-2 days to learn. Which means, you really DO NOT need romaji ANYWHERE. It should only be used by you when you're learning the pronunciation and that's it.
Tbh as a romanian I don't find those words difficult to say either. Most of the phonetic is the same here too, except for the ra ru ri re ro, but it's pretty similar too.
Usually what I do with words like "atatakakunakatta" is split it up like "ata", "taka", "kuna", "katta", it works really well for me for speaking and reading. We learnt this word in Japanese class, but not even my teacher could get it right! XD but yeah, because of that technique, I was the first one to get it right... I don't know if anyone else does it or if it's a normal thing, but it seems my class has never thought of that even after 2 years of learning Japanese...
+deCASS NI (deCASSNI) Even easier is to recognize "atatakunakatta" is actually the conjugated past-negative form of the i-adjective word "atatakai" while "kunakatta" is the state of being.
You probably think you're pronouncing the words right but are off. In my head I'm like yeah, I got these down but even the subtlest imperfections will sound totally off to a native speaker.
I'm a English Speaker, but I speak Spanish as well. And I've heard that when a person can speak both English and Spanish, it is easier for them to learn French, Italian, and even Japanese. Because some words seem like Spanish words, while others are English words with a Japanese edit per say.
One thing that wasn't mentioned that some students find difficult is the ん before や. Example: 婚約 (kon'yaku) vs. こんにゃく (kon'nyaku). You have to be sure to stop after the ん for the former or it sounds like the latter. General tip for Japanese is to keep each syllable (mora) distinct, while western languages tend to have a softer syllable transition.
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+Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com Hi! I just found out about your channel and inmediately suscribed! Awesome video! I think 便利、侵略 etc are difficult to pronounce to foreigners because of the "nr" ("beNRi", "shiNRyaku") sound in the middle. It's hard to separate the "n" sound the way the japanese language does (at least for english and spanish speakers). Same with 店員.Most people tend to pronounce it as "te-nin" instead of "ten-in". Other difficult words to pronounce: - 雰囲気. People tend to pronounce it "fuinki" - 働かなければなりません。（これはもう早早口言葉ですねｗｗｗ）
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com what the heck these words are so hard to say or pronounced I'm still learning the basics of that language I can't pronounced half of them
+Grizzly No, its not. German and English are just of the same language brench. That only means their grammar is similar. It says little about their phonetics
Risa should do a "top 10 Japanese words that are often mispronounced by English speakers." Such words include: Raiden (mispronounced "Rayden") Gaiden (Gayden) Tokyo (Tow-kee-oh) katana (Kuh-TAN-a instead of "kah-tah-nah") Ryu (rye-oo) Sayonara (sigh-O-nar-a instead of "sa-yo-na-ra") Karaoke (carry-o-kee instead of ka-ra-o-kay) Bonsai (pronounced like "banzai")
+therealhardrock I have little idea of why English pronounces "karaoke" as 「ケリオキ」 when in Japanese it is 「カラオケ」. I think the latter pronunciation makes more sense. Perhaps many English speakers feel that the latter pronunciation is too difficult according to their phonics.
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also: かわいい→こわい 〜です→ですーう just generally pronouncing 〜す→すーう although it depends on dialect and emphasis i think. I can pronounce「ら,り,る,れ,ろ, and りゃ,りゅ」 just fine (i think anyway haha) but still have trouble with "りょ" for some reason, I always say: り-よ or ろ ;-; agh
Just when I was thinking that I was improving my japanese...I play this video and my moral is now on the floor. Holy kami-sama!! This words are hard!!!
To me, Japanese is the easiest to pronounce out of the languages I've tried but that's because I speak Spanish which have similar sounds. In Japanese, you pronounce it the way you read it, so it's pretty easy. It's not like English where sometimes the sound of the vowels will change depending on the word.
Just "tsu" つ was hard for me to say, but I learned a way. Honestly, it sounds almost like "su" to me, but when I try to imitate Japanese, they tell me I sound like I'm saying "su". So instead of trying to imitate them, I just say a light "chu" or a "su/chu" hybrid, and they completely understand me.
I don't know what's your native language, but if you have the sound of "T" and "SU" in your language it is easy to reproduce. You have to merge two sounds together: "Tssss + Su" (Tssss is voiceless). The position of the tongue is like in the word "Two", it is not the same as "Chu" (they are slightly different sounds). If you can perfectly say "Ta" and "Su" in japanese, just position your lips and your tongue in the top of your mouth as if you are going to say "Ta" and force the air to flow between your tongue and the top of the mouth, make this voiceless sound: Tssss (like if you are opening a can of soda, make the air "explode" at the beginning, this is the T sound! Keep your lips as if you are saying "Ta"), try it and voice the U at the end: TssssU then you should practice to make the "tssss" shorter.
I'm from Poland and every of this words are easy to say for me. When I was learning Japanese for the first time I saw that fonetic between Polish and Japanese language are very similar and pronouncination is very easy to learn. English fonetic is mooore different. Big amount of Japanese words are hard to spell for american or british people. Another difference: Pronunciation and spelling are the same and letters or syllables in words and sentences sound the same as spoken separately, not as in English. I can write a lot of sentences in my language using hiragana. Some of Polish words will be very easy to say for Japanese people. But not as easily as their words for us. Greetings from Poland
Some are difficult and some are easy. Some viewers seem overconfident. Let us see if Japanese speakers think they did so well... Good video. Carry on as usual. Thanks.
+Chauna Kelly How about 雰囲気（ふんいき）? A lot of Japanese people apparently mishear/mispronounce it as ふいんき. I think the hardest part of Japanese pronunciation is not accidentally combining ん + a vowel into one syllable （i.e. ふにき）. 三千円ある。 三位。 But I feel like the りゃ / りゅ / りょ sounds are hard to pronounce, too.
I think for people who speak portuguese, phonetically speaking, there is no much challenge in speak those words, at least I don't, but in compensation other things are hard as f%$k.
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I think the "hard to pronounce" factor greatly depends on your native language/mastery of other languages. Of course tongue twisters exist because they're fun and challenging even for the natives. 隣の客がよくかき食う客だ is one really difficult one in my opinion. (oh and which "kaki" is he eating ?) But I can feel differences, for example most of the words in this video felt super easy, except あたたかくなかった even though I think 暖かかった is even more difficult ! I'm a native of French, and I find the alternative between SH and CH quite challenging. Beware 7 o'clock ! or some words like 外出中. Also, nailing the "H" took a lot of practice. And the timing for vowels is an everyday challenge 許可 vs 強化 My English speaking colleagues and friends usually hate close words like きれい・きらい or かわいい・怖い Language is fun, looking forward to new videos. (I'd love to see a guide on pitch accent : 牡蠣 vs 柿 雨 vs 飴 etc...)
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When my (Japanese) wife taught a group of Americans some easy Japanese, they all had trouble saying 「羊」ひつじ (hitsuji - sheep). I think the ひ "hi" was most difficult, plus the つ "tsu" right afterward. But it's not exactly an every day word!
Ruri Takanashi my first alnguage is serbian but i also know russian (they are very similar) The way we pronounce letters is the same as japanese so yea that helps a lot
Yeah, it's difficult for other languages, especially for me, who grew up learning English. We don't have the "tsu" or "ryu" sounds in everyday speech, and even words that do use it, like "tsunami", are usually just pronounced with an "s" sound, so "tsunami" just becomes "sunami".
For Portuguese(At least Brazilian Portuguese) native people it is not that difficult, because we have in our language almost all sounds needed to pronounce japanese words. So it's kinda easy to learn. Excluding reading/writing kanji, learn japanese is easiest than english for us, because the english sounds different and is a stressed language instead Japanese that isn't.
So much fun to watch these! really keeps me interested and puts me in such a good mood, happy I can read it in the different ways too makes it soooooo much easier!
Im Portuguese native speaker and i was Japanese student in the past. Most is these words are easy for me. Except for atatakakunakatta. Which is really tricky to say for those who speak Portuguese. Abraços do Brasil!
thank you for your video my daughter she is mix her mon Japanese I Spanish and we live in USA she likes everything in Japanese she love Japanese language what you suggest easy for her to learn
くつした Kutsushita "Socks" I think this is very difficult to pronounce. It looks simple but the "shita" is pronounced like "shta" and to put that next to the tsu sound is a tongue twister for me. I'd love to hear Risa-san say it for me! I want to hear a native pronounce it
I struggle to pronounce 'fu' and everything starting with 'r'. Other than that, I feel like I can pronounce japanese pretty well! I'm from Norway, btw!
Okay Im danish and words starting with tsu is just so confusing, but I think atatakakunakatta, chūshajō and occhokochoi sounds easier than the other 8, sounds like you should pronounce it "ata-tak-aku-nakatta". For me chūshajō isn't that hard if I just try a couple of times. I tried to listen and say it again several times even at the same time, and it sounds completely Identical. And for the last one I did occhokochoi totally correct in first try. The reason why is that some of the way the individial things is pronounced to each other is a bit the same as in danish. The start with occho is occurring constantly in danish. We have so many words with double words divided up in two syllable. It's typical in the lower grades when the kids is learning to write words correctly that they have a hard time learning if words like "forfatter" (author) is spelled forfatter with two t's or forfater with one t. Though after getting older in the higher grades and up it's getting so easy, that even if we hear a new word we've never heard before, we are still able to hear if it's a double or single letter.
The only problem with "tsutaerarenakatta" and "atatakunakatta" are the length of the words.. It's not because I can't pronounce them I just tend to forget syllables or have to think really har about them.. lol - So I'd go "atakunakatta" and forget the other 'ta' for example. Though... The japanese "R" is a bit difficult for me, because to me L and R are different sounds, so just like the Japanese have a hard time separating them I have a hard time combining them turning some of those words into tongue twisters lol
At one point, Risa-sensei says 「こぼしちゃった」、"I broke it!" Is this from 零す、to spill? If so, is she doing a Tokyo slang form of 零してしまった = 零しちゃった? Would 壊してしまった also work?
Thank you for these great lessons! Also, I have a question about a word that you use in your dialogue at around 35 seconds - the text on the screen shows "gaikoku no hito ni wa" but instead of saying "hito ni wa", you say some other word that I can't figure out. Anybody know? Thanks kindly.
hi, a year later and no one replied. i hope i can help with this late reply! she is saying exactly what the subtitles say, her pronunciation on the "H" in hito however came out lisped and sounded as though she used a s/sh sound instead. I can assure to native speakers, this pronunciation is not hard to pick up on and it took me quite a few listens to understand what you thought you heard differently. :)
Faith Otani Actually, Japanese H sound is neither S nor SH. It is /ç/, which is a character you mightn’t have ever seen. For your information, ふ sounds neither Fu nor Hu, it is /ɸɯ̹/
Apparently speaking Cantonese makes most of these sounds easy...even the nga in Japanese as well...FeelsGoodMan Especially the last one, sounds like some Cantonese word
Sweet, I was able to pronounce every word correctly! Maybe cuz I'm Latina as well as born and raised in Sweden. I always thought that those languages sounded like Japanese at times.
maybe these words are hard to pronounce for native English speakers, as they pronounce certain letters completely different from (at least) a lot of European languages, while a lot of European languages pronounce certain letters/vowels/sounds the same as Japanese. I had no trouble with these words. Also, I study Japan Studies in Leiden and we already learned words like 便利、旅行 and あたたくなかった(I haven't learned the kanji for this one yet though) in the first 2/3 months! :D
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Aιмι Geη Perhaps Japanese has words of Austronesian origins due to Japan being an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. However, I've read Japanese could be an Altaic language.
i see comments of people saying these words are not hard to pronounce and such. just because you "think" you can say the sounds correctly does not mean you are pronouncing words correctly xD people who watch anime think learning japanese is as easy as watching a tv show. lots of time and practise goes into being able to speak well enough to be understood.
The only sounds that I find difficult to replicate are "んりょ～", "んりゅ～", or "んりゃ～". Like in the word "電力". I think you're supposed to just omit the "r" in these sounds... Every voice bot (like google translate) does this, I don't think it's actually possible to follow the "n" with "ryo".
All of these are quite easy to pronounce if you are a native Finnish speaker. Japanese is pronounced nearly like Finnish even though those are totally different languages.
Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com yes what does it mean? ^_^ oh it's the come version i just had a quick google: te kimasu” which means “Going out to do something and come back”
I speak Spanish as native language so I don't find Japanese words so difficult to pronounce, but I know I'd commit mistakes trying to speak Japanese fast, so I think I'd learn Japanese relatively easy, but talking it not fast in order to not have mistakes.
Thank you for the lesson! Honestly, I remember back when I first taught myself Doitashimashite, for the first time. It means "you're welcome". I had to make a ryming game out of it. Do-Ita-shima-shite.
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I love the way these videos are formulated! It shows the romaji, kanji, and english translation all together, which makes learning so much easier. Plus the way that Risa slows down her pronunciation of the Japanese word is super helpful. Thank you for these videos! They're great! :D
storres0413 in the beginning she didn't have romaji, she used to ask people to go sign up at her website
DownFromTheSky89 I never checked her website, I just watch her videos.
+storres0413 If you're serious about learning Japanese you really shouldn't be using romaji in the first place. Hiragana and katakana are really easy to learn and would take you at most a day or two to memorize. Romaji as opposed to furigana or straight up kanji inhibits that progress and you end up using it as a crotch which will only hurt you in the long run.
m8onethousand Yeah, I use the romaji so I can clearly read if I am pronouncing the words correctly as I hear them. Once I am familiar with the words, then I move to the kana, and then end with learning the kanji. Learning a language requires baby steps, so having them all there really helps me out.
DownFromTheSky89 That's the thing, hiragana and katakana only takes up at most 1-2 days to learn. Which means, you really DO NOT need romaji ANYWHERE. It should only be used by you when you're learning the pronunciation and that's it.
atatakakunakatta remimded me of " hakuna matata" xD
Lol and I though german had long words
Same !
Risa's videos always put me in a good mood. n_n
***** plus I have a huge crush on her, so there's also that LOL
+Neto del Toro You're not alone, m8.
You're right dude
everytime i saw her i was happy
I bet all the native spanish speakers are laughing at us right now :')
We native spanish speakers can pronounce easily japanese because spanish sounds a lot similar.
Tbh as a romanian I don't find those words difficult to say either. Most of the phonetic is the same here too, except for the ra ru ri re ro, but it's pretty similar too.
Yes muahahahahaha it's easier for us except for those long ones that are like tongue twisters like atatakakunakatta
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Hahhaha a that's true
Usually what I do with words like "atatakakunakatta" is split it up like "ata", "taka", "kuna", "katta", it works really well for me for speaking and reading.
We learnt this word in Japanese class, but not even my teacher could get it right! XD but yeah, because of that technique, I was the first one to get it right... I don't know if anyone else does it or if it's a normal thing, but it seems my class has never thought of that even after 2 years of learning Japanese...
Omg thanks so much! Ur splitting of words helped me! Ahahah
deCASS NI I always do that, haha.
deCASS NI Usually the "kunakatta" I get it correctly, but the small "tsu" messes up my perfect scores. Pretty frustrating if you ask me.
+deCASS NI (deCASSNI) Even easier is to recognize "atatakunakatta" is actually the conjugated past-negative form of the i-adjective word "atatakai" while "kunakatta" is the state of being.
+Celestia Dash The small っ is not pronounced but lengthens the following consonant in the following hiragana. ろっく = rokku.
It's not hard for spanish speakers because we have the same phonetic for some letters except the "J" or the "H".
My mother tongue is Polish, and I don't have any problems pronouncing those, but I can understand why those words could be hard for English speakers.
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Lithuanian here.... easy peasy!!
You probably think you're pronouncing the words right but are off. In my head I'm like yeah, I got these down but even the subtlest imperfections will sound totally off to a native speaker.
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I'm a English Speaker, but I speak Spanish as well. And I've heard that when a person can speak both English and Spanish, it is easier for them to learn French, Italian, and even Japanese. Because some words seem like Spanish words, while others are English words with a Japanese edit per say.
One thing that wasn't mentioned that some students find difficult is the ん before や. Example: 婚約 (kon'yaku) vs. こんにゃく (kon'nyaku). You have to be sure to stop after the ん for the former or it sounds like the latter. General tip for Japanese is to keep each syllable (mora) distinct, while western languages tend to have a softer syllable transition.
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I think 便利、侵略 etc are difficult to pronounce to foreigners because of the "nr" ("beNRi", "shiNRyaku") sound in the middle. It's hard to separate the "n" sound the way the japanese language does (at least for english and spanish speakers).
Same with 店員.Most people tend to pronounce it as "te-nin" instead of "ten-in".
Other difficult words to pronounce:
- 雰囲気. People tend to pronounce it "fuinki"
- 働かなければなりません。（これはもう早早口言葉ですねｗｗｗ）
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com what the heck these words are so hard to say or pronounced I'm still learning the basics of that language I can't pronounced half of them
They're hard to pronounce for english people, i speak spanish and there's no problem
I'm not sure why..but somehow I can speak some of the hard ones as an English speaker..maybe I've practiced German for a while I'm not sure 😂
Leah Fox wouldn't make sense though. english is a mutation of german
Grizzly Yeah, and I have German heritages. I have words I can pronounce and in Japanese ...weird I know..
+Grizzly No, its not. German and English are just of the same language brench. That only means their grammar is similar. It says little about their phonetics
Yeah! It's easy for Spanish speakers.
Risa should do a "top 10 Japanese words that are often mispronounced by English speakers."
Such words include:
Raiden (mispronounced "Rayden")
Gaiden (Gayden)
Tokyo (Tow-kee-oh)
katana (Kuh-TAN-a instead of "kah-tah-nah")
Ryu (rye-oo)
Sayonara (sigh-O-nar-a instead of "sa-yo-na-ra")
Karaoke (carry-o-kee instead of ka-ra-o-kay)
Bonsai (pronounced like "banzai")
+therealhardrock I have little idea of why English pronounces "karaoke" as 「ケリオキ」 when in Japanese it is 「カラオケ」. I think the latter pronunciation makes more sense. Perhaps many English speakers feel that the latter pronunciation is too difficult according to their phonics.
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and konnichiwa instead of Ko-NEE-chi-wah
also: かわいい→こわい
〜です→ですーう
just generally pronouncing 〜す→すーう although it depends on dialect and emphasis i think.
I can pronounce「ら,り,る,れ,ろ, and りゃ,りゅ」 just fine (i think anyway haha) but still have trouble with "りょ" for some reason, I always say: り-よ or ろ ;-; agh
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I don’t really mean to learn Japanese here. I just like to see Risa’s innocent and purest smile, so contagious! I feel so good.
Just when I was thinking that I was improving my japanese...I play this video and my moral is now on the floor. Holy kami-sama!! This words are hard!!!
When ん is followed by an "r" sound, I sometimes find it hard to pronounce quickly
To me, Japanese is the easiest to pronounce out of the languages I've tried but that's because I speak Spanish which have similar sounds. In Japanese, you pronounce it the way you read it, so it's pretty easy. It's not like English where sometimes the sound of the vowels will change depending on the word.
Just "tsu" つ was hard for me to say, but I learned a way.
Honestly, it sounds almost like "su" to me, but when I try to imitate Japanese, they tell me I sound like I'm saying "su".
So instead of trying to imitate them, I just say a light "chu" or a "su/chu" hybrid, and they completely understand me.
I don't know what's your native language, but if you have the sound of "T" and "SU" in your language it is easy to reproduce. You have to merge two sounds together: "Tssss + Su" (Tssss is voiceless). The position of the tongue is like in the word "Two", it is not the same as "Chu" (they are slightly different sounds).
If you can perfectly say "Ta" and "Su" in japanese, just position your lips and your tongue in the top of your mouth as if you are going to say "Ta" and force the air to flow between your tongue and the top of the mouth, make this voiceless sound: Tssss (like if you are opening a can of soda, make the air "explode" at the beginning, this is the T sound! Keep your lips as if you are saying "Ta"), try it and voice the U at the end: TssssU then you should practice to make the "tssss" shorter.
I'm from Poland and every of this words are easy to say for me. When I was learning Japanese for the first time I saw that fonetic between Polish and Japanese language are very similar and pronouncination is very easy to learn. English fonetic is mooore different. Big amount of Japanese words are hard to spell for american or british people. Another difference: Pronunciation and spelling are the same and letters or syllables in words and sentences sound the same as spoken separately, not as in English. I can write a lot of sentences in my language using hiragana. Some of Polish words will be very easy to say for Japanese people. But not as easily as their words for us. Greetings from Poland
Thanks, this is great. One of my favourite videos from Risa-chan
Some are difficult and some are easy. Some viewers seem overconfident. Let us see if Japanese speakers think they did so well... Good video. Carry on as usual. Thanks.
What is Japanese for "I want Risa to be my teacher"?
+ardiansyah putra I'm thinking it'd be リサさんに先生になってもらいたい。 :P
リサとエッチしたい is correct
thank good my first language is spanish, cuz the pronunciations are somewhat similar
Such a great informative video, I enjoy the animation as well. :-)
Thank you.
But Japanese is so easy to pronounce haha, I don't find these words hard at all
+Chauna Kelly How about 雰囲気（ふんいき）? A lot of Japanese people apparently mishear/mispronounce it as ふいんき. I think the hardest part of Japanese pronunciation is not accidentally combining ん + a vowel into one syllable （i.e. ふにき）. 三千円ある。 三位。 But I feel like the りゃ / りゅ / りょ sounds are hard to pronounce, too.
+DePro “DeProgrammer” Grammer Omg yes りょ was the hardest for me to pronounce but it's my friends name so he mad sure I said it right hahaha
Chauna me too i thought i was the only one who thought they were a piece of cake😂
I think for people who speak portuguese, phonetically speaking, there is no much challenge in speak those words, at least I don't, but in compensation other things are hard as f%$k.
@@deprogrammer3640 you seem to know a lot about pronunciation. Do you mind practicing with me? Im a native english speaker at about an 日本語能力試験 N3 ish level. Im willing to pay for your time.
I think the "hard to pronounce" factor greatly depends on your native language/mastery of other languages. Of course tongue twisters exist because they're fun and challenging even for the natives. 隣の客がよくかき食う客だ is one really difficult one in my opinion. (oh and which "kaki" is he eating ?)
But I can feel differences, for example most of the words in this video felt super easy, except あたたかくなかった even though I think 暖かかった is even more difficult !
I'm a native of French, and I find the alternative between SH and CH quite challenging. Beware 7 o'clock ! or some words like 外出中. Also, nailing the "H" took a lot of practice. And the timing for vowels is an everyday challenge 許可 vs 強化
My English speaking colleagues and friends usually hate close words like きれい・きらい or かわいい・怖い
Language is fun, looking forward to new videos. (I'd love to see a guide on pitch accent : 牡蠣 vs 柿 雨 vs 飴 etc...)
Maybe saying しちじ （七時） quickly can also cause some trouble. Fun video!
Thanks ,All these Lessons are Formulated in a Very Fine and Systematical manner . Then, Very Special thanks should go to Risa san for Excellent Way of Teaching . Its always Very Very Interesting . How many could make , tough & tiring Lessons ,So Interesting . Our gratitudes for all of You .
Risa makes so fun to learn Japanese 😊
I love you and your program it’s a great job
I love Japan and I love the language Japaneese this is why I am so grateful to you Risa
Great video! very informative and well produced!
3:47 a clumsy girl also spelled clumsy wrong hahaha!
bottom of screen xD
Yeah!! I see it
BTW why tho this typo?
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That was so much fun that was a great lesson. Arigato gozaimasu risa sensei
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Good video thanks for showing us this
When my (Japanese) wife taught a group of Americans some easy Japanese, they all had trouble saying 「羊」ひつじ (hitsuji - sheep). I think the ひ "hi" was most difficult, plus the つ "tsu" right afterward. But it's not exactly an every day word!
I didn't really understand what's so hard in these words, but my first language is Russian, so... :DD
My first language is Russian too, must be something about the similar phonetics that makes it a lot easier. （＾ν＾）
Ruri Takanashi my first alnguage is serbian but i also know russian (they are very similar) The way we pronounce letters is the same as japanese so yea that helps a lot
Kewka Production well yeah, it's really similliar, although we have different r and ch :D
yep
Yeah, it's difficult for other languages, especially for me, who grew up learning English. We don't have the "tsu" or "ryu" sounds in everyday speech, and even words that do use it, like "tsunami", are usually just pronounced with an "s" sound, so "tsunami" just becomes "sunami".
I am from Czech Republic and have no problem s Japanese pronounce ;) Super video :)
I'm proud that my language (PT-BR) allows me to pronounce words from every country in the world
there's a mistake in the kanji at 2:21 Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com
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Lena Zhan actually not, dictionary lists both すみません and すいません and people use both forms, though the first is more polite, perhaps more "correct" form
JPNox no that's not what i mean
i meant for店員
Lena Zhan oh, sorry. That text actually appeared at 2:17, hence the mix up
+Lena Zhan I guess Risa really is an occhokochoi na onnanoko.
thank you. your tutorial is very interesting
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First video on this channel that I watched and it made me immediately subscribe. So good!
Your teaching is goood~ Not boring at all. Actually I am so into the lesson and focused.I feel like I wanna learn Japnese again:)
素晴らしい！Excellent video.
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I'm Asian so I'm used to the "tsu" sound. No problem for me. It's just that I suck at kanji😭😭😭😭
Risa is definitely crazy. But I feel I am really learning, I think this is still to advanced for me right now. ありがとうございますJapanesePod101
おはようございます, Risa-san！
リサさん、はじめまして 私はミタです。よろしくお願いします。リサさんのビデオが初めて見て、すぐ好きになります。
Risa's vídeos are the BEST. Good and funny videos😃😃🙏
Thanks Risa. Fun way to learn how to pronounce these words correctly😀
For Portuguese(At least Brazilian Portuguese) native people it is not that difficult, because we have in our language almost all sounds needed to pronounce japanese words. So it's kinda easy to learn. Excluding reading/writing kanji, learn japanese is easiest than english for us, because the english sounds different and is a stressed language instead Japanese that isn't.
So much fun to watch these! really keeps me interested and puts me in such a good mood, happy I can read it in the different ways too makes it soooooo much easier!
Im Portuguese native speaker and i was Japanese student in the past. Most is these words are easy for me. Except for atatakakunakatta. Which is really tricky to say for those who speak Portuguese. Abraços do Brasil!
It's 難しい to get the R sound right in べんり...
手伝ってくれて、ありがちう！！！
"giggle giggle"....so adorable
thank you for your video my daughter she is mix her mon Japanese I Spanish and we live in USA she likes everything in Japanese she love Japanese language what you suggest easy for her to learn
I speak Swedish, and it's easy. Same r's, k's, and if you learn to drop the う in つ it is pretty easy to pronounce.
And I said it very loud trying to say it while in my headphone ! :D RISA
thank you Risa :) anata ga suki desu !!
大変、御参考になりました。
for the foreign language speakers it may be easier for you, but for persons whose english is first language, some of these combinations are difficult
I'm happy i'm a german native speaker. I have no problems with tsu
くつした
Kutsushita
"Socks"
I think this is very difficult to pronounce. It looks simple but the "shita" is pronounced like "shta" and to put that next to the tsu sound is a tongue twister for me. I'd love to hear Risa-san say it for me! I want to hear a native pronounce it
I struggle to pronounce 'fu' and everything starting with 'r'. Other than that, I feel like I can pronounce japanese pretty well! I'm from Norway, btw!
Okay Im danish and words starting with tsu is just so confusing, but I think atatakakunakatta, chūshajō and occhokochoi sounds easier than the other 8, sounds like you should pronounce it
"ata-tak-aku-nakatta". For me chūshajō isn't that hard if I just try a couple of times. I tried to listen and say it again several times even at the same time, and it sounds completely Identical. And for the last one I did occhokochoi totally correct in first try. The reason why is that some of the way the individial things is pronounced to each other is a bit the same as in danish. The start with occho is occurring constantly in danish. We have so many words with double words divided up in two syllable. It's typical in the lower grades when the kids is learning to write words correctly that they have a hard time learning if words like "forfatter" (author) is spelled forfatter with two t's or forfater with one t. Though after getting older in the higher grades and up it's getting so easy, that even if we hear a new word we've never heard before, we are still able to hear if it's a double or single letter.
The only problem with "tsutaerarenakatta" and "atatakunakatta" are the length of the words.. It's not because I can't pronounce them I just tend to forget syllables or have to think really har about them.. lol - So I'd go "atakunakatta" and forget the other 'ta' for example.
Though... The japanese "R" is a bit difficult for me, because to me L and R are different sounds, so just like the Japanese have a hard time separating them I have a hard time combining them turning some of those words into tongue twisters lol
At one point, Risa-sensei says 「こぼしちゃった」、"I broke it!" Is this from 零す、to spill? If so, is she doing a Tokyo slang form of 零してしまった = 零しちゃった? Would 壊してしまった also work?
Very nice.
hehe! Fantastic video...It's funy how some Japanese words sound like Swahili hehe!..very helpful!! Thanks
Risa you are the best
You really are a funny girl and I love your way to teach your language. I´ll follow you!!
Greetings from Spain!
Thank you for these great lessons! Also, I have a question about a word that you use in your dialogue at around 35 seconds - the text on the screen shows "gaikoku no hito ni wa" but instead of saying "hito ni wa", you say some other word that I can't figure out. Anybody know? Thanks kindly.
hi, a year later and no one replied. i hope i can help with this late reply! she is saying exactly what the subtitles say, her pronunciation on the "H" in hito however came out lisped and sounded as though she used a s/sh sound instead. I can assure to native speakers, this pronunciation is not hard to pick up on and it took me quite a few listens to understand what you thought you heard differently. :)
Faith Otani
Actually, Japanese H sound is neither S nor SH.
It is /ç/, which is a character you mightn’t have ever seen.
For your information, ふ sounds neither Fu nor Hu, it is /ɸɯ̹/
Love you so much !
what does tsutaerarenakattandarou means?
i always love videos by Risa :) it's very funny
It's really depends on where are you from. For Polish people it's pretty easy to pronounce all this words (and Japanese in genereal) :)
I'm a foreigner learning Japanese but tsu is actually quite easy to pronounce.
English is my original language and I can pronounce some words..😂 still learning hopefully I can get better!
Apparently speaking Cantonese makes most of these sounds easy...even the nga in Japanese as well...FeelsGoodMan Especially the last one, sounds like some Cantonese word
great video :)
As a French and bilangual (not sure that's how you write it though...) as English, these weren't hard for me to pronounce so yay !
たぶん、「女王」と「いい言い方」って文章より難しいでしょうかな～
These words are very easy for a native speaker of brazilian portuguese!!!
Sweet, I was able to pronounce every word correctly! Maybe cuz I'm Latina as well as born and raised in Sweden. I always thought that those languages sounded like Japanese at times.
maybe these words are hard to pronounce for native English speakers, as they pronounce certain letters completely different from (at least) a lot of European languages, while a lot of European languages pronounce certain letters/vowels/sounds the same as Japanese. I had no trouble with these words.
Also, I study Japan Studies in Leiden and we already learned words like 便利、旅行 and あたたくなかった(I haven't learned the kanji for this one yet though) in the first 2/3 months! :D
Is is me or does the word ''atatakakunakatta'' sounds like a Maori or Native American word? XD
+Félix “Lt. Gen. Jack O'Neill” Veilleux-Ouellet Hello,
Thank you for posting.
It could be.
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com No problem. ;-)
Correction: *Is it me or...
Aιмι Geη Perhaps Japanese has words of Austronesian origins due to Japan being an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. However, I've read Japanese could be an Altaic language.
Aιмι Geη That's an interesting hypothesis.
Aιмι Geη Ainu languages are a language family of their own from my understanding.
i see comments of people saying these words are not hard to pronounce and such. just because you "think" you can say the sounds correctly does not mean you are pronouncing words correctly xD people who watch anime think learning japanese is as easy as watching a tv show. lots of time and practise goes into being able to speak well enough to be understood.
The only sounds that I find difficult to replicate are "んりょ～", "んりゅ～", or "んりゃ～". Like in the word "電力".
I think you're supposed to just omit the "r" in these sounds... Every voice bot (like google translate) does this, I don't think it's actually possible to follow the "n" with "ryo".
My local language uses the tsu sound a lot so it's kinda easy ☺
most of them had to with the ry combination... am I wrong to say that it sounded as if the r was near silent?
All of these are quite easy to pronounce if you are a native Finnish speaker. Japanese is pronounced nearly like Finnish even though those are totally different languages.
質問があります。in my Genki book 2 伝える means to convey a message.
Does it mean the same thing??
why isn't it ikimasu but tekimasu? thanks
+Aviation HD Hello,
Thank you for posting.
What "tekimasu" means?
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Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com yes what does it mean? ^_^ oh it's the come version i just had a quick google: te kimasu” which means “Going out to do something and come back”
+Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com Maybe they mean "いってきます" 漢字面倒
Google te form.
I speak Spanish as native language so I don't find Japanese words so difficult to pronounce, but I know I'd commit mistakes trying to speak Japanese fast, so I think I'd learn Japanese relatively easy, but talking it not fast in order to not have mistakes.
Thank you for the lesson! Honestly, I remember back when I first taught myself Doitashimashite, for the first time. It means "you're welcome". I had to make a ryming game out of it. Do-Ita-shima-shite.
I'm lebanese (arab) and these are so easy to pronounce !
リサ先生すごいね!🥳🥳😃
2:20 tenin-san: the jukugo displays teiin (rather a word for capacity?) instead of tenin. looks fiendishly simmilar to tenin!
😀 love you!
I'm Dutch, this is easy!